There is a good old Harvard custom of courtesy which is still honored by a few members of the university. A tradition impelling men who in any way speak for or are so situated as to represent the university in any way, to always act and speak in a courteous and gentlemanly manner, has long existed. It is not, we hope, about to die out. The last number of the Crimson plainly, but unwittingly, we hope, violates this tradition, and induges in an unseemly slur upon the reputation for gentleman-liness of the visitors from Yale to our recent 'Varsity game. The conduct of the Yale team, it cannot be denied, was in general ungentlemanly and altogether reprehensible. The conduct of the Yale papers since the game has been equally bad or even worse. But not all this, we think, affords our contemporary any justification for the brutal fashion in which it turns upon the visitors from Yale and dubbs them "Connecticut roughs." Bad as has been the conduct of Yale in this matter, and deserving of censure as the college may be for upholding and even praising the conduct of its team, we cannot without a protest allow the impression to prevail at Yale that the students of Harvard are reduced to the extremity of indulging in such unseemly vilification as a means of upholding their cause and of defending their rights.